Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

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Tekniska museet, the Technical Museum, is a museum in Stockholm with Sweden's largest collection of exhibits from the fields of science and technology.

The museum was founded in 1923 by Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien ( IVA ), Sveriges Industriförbund, Svenska Uppfinnareföreningen (SUF ), Svenska Teknologföreningen and is since 1948 a foundation. The present building in Östermalm in Stockholm was opened in 1936, it was built in the functionalist style according to the plans of architect Ragnar Hjort. Tekniska museet has an exhibition area of ​​10,000 square meters and has about 55,000 objects in its collections. The number of visitors amounted in 2007 to 305 746 people.

The centerpiece of the museum is the large machine shop, here exhibits such as steam engines, automobiles and airplanes are shown.

Furthermore, there are:

• A walk- ore mine,
• A model railway,
• Some of Christopher Polhem inventions, developed a named after him water -powered drive system for the drainage of mines, the so-called Polhemsrad,
• The original of the Board Room of the inventor and founder of today's media company Ericsson, Lars Magnus Ericsson,
• Since 2006 Kreativa kvinnor, a presentation of female inventors of today and the past.

The museum has an amateur radio station that is maintained by volunteers. In addition, numerous temporary exhibitions are carried out.